One can make a deduction which is quite certainly the ultimate truth of puzzles. Despite appearances, puzzling is not a solitary game, every move the puzzler makes, the puzzle-maker has made before; every piece the puzzler picks up, and picks up again, and studies and strokes, every combination he tries, and tries a second time, every blunder and every insight, each hope and each discouragement have all been designed, calculated, and decided by the other.
For everyone solving a good puzzle gives a teasing sense out of an undifferentiated mass of symbols and images is a sublime experience.
A well framed puzzle has a non-obvious solution and requires some sort of inspired insight on the part of the solver, but once the solver has deduced—and executed—the mechanism, the answer must be unambiguously clear. In that sense a good puzzle is the opposite of a real-life problem, which demands compromises and trade-offs, and rarely provides a way to confirm the existence, much less the nature, of the "correct" solution. On the contrary every puzzle is inspired from the real life and modified to remove the controversies and to bring consensus between the master mind and the solver. Solving puzzles and learning new techniques improves the logical thinking and boosts confidence in taking up new challenges.
Try Puzzles for fun, solve them if you have it in you and analyse them if you have passion.
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